Dunedin's new mobile trading bylaw will cover everything from buskers to e-scooter companies and even future drone delivery services.
Councillors voted at a Dunedin City Council meeting yesterday to go ahead with a revised version of the mobile trading and temporary stall bylaw as the most appropriate way of addressing mobile and street trading as well as e-scooter operators in the city.
In a response to the impact Lime e-scooters were having on the roads and footpaths in the city, the council voted in March to start an early review of the bylaw.
Council community services general manager Simon Pickford said the council wanted to make sure the bylaw was broad enough to capture current issues as well as any future advances in technology.
''Obviously, we have been caught out by the fact we have a fairly restrictive bylaw in its definition of trading, which has allowed the scooter companies to launch here without any restraint.''
''We want a bylaw which is all encompassing that will anticipate other things that are coming ... One thing which has been talked about is delivery drone robots, which wouldn't be captured by our current bylaw but we want to make sure this bylaw law is flexible enough to capture that.''
Other issues covered in the review would include if busking and street fundraising needed to be regulated and the process for managing specific mobile trading sites.
A draft bylaw will be presented to the new council before Christmas and a special consultative procedure and submission process would take place after that.
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WRT to Lime, I still don't get why NZTA are not the umbrella for the whole of NZ. New Zealand doesn't have states, so why let little people on councils decide on what's what Visitors to NZ will be confused. ,I guess to make them feel important. One set of rules for NZ not a mixi blob of rules through out the country. And this should have been done before Limes landed, the same applies for Drones one law for the whole of NZ. And this is because of Bidrose and Cull a hell of a lot of people knew the decision by Cull and Bidrose was flawed. 'Obviously, we have been caught out by the fact we have a fairly restrictive bylaw in its definition of trading, which has allowed the scooter companies to launch here without any restraint.'' has anybody read Bidrose's MOU with Lime. if there is such a document. or is it created with Crayons